Finance For Executives

Master financial frameworks, language and tools to make better decisions for your organisation.

Assessing your organisation’s financial health and determining its critical needs can be complex. Making informed decisions that add real value requires a solid understanding of the right analytical tools. 

This intensive programme empowers you with the finance acumen, frameworks and language to assess requirements, evaluate investments, improve strategic resource allocation and communicate more effectively with other stakeholders in your organisation and your financial ecosystem.

Benefits For You:

• Gain the knowledge and skills to determine the financial health of your organisation and address its needs.
• Optimise your allocation of financial and other resources.
• Evaluate critical investment projects, including entire companies, with confidence and authority.
• Use discounted cash flow analysis to accurately assess the value and attractiveness of investments.
• Communicate effectively with your organisation’s finance function.
• Gain the confidence and authority to communicate on a level-playing field with outside lenders and shareholders.

Key Topics:

• Explore financial analysis and financial forecasting
• Master the essentials of valuation
• Discover discounted cash flow analysis and how to apply it to assess investments
• Deploy capital structure analysis, interacting with capital markets and optimal capital structure
• Gain expert understanding of mergers and acquisitions
• Apply financial analysis learned on the course to value an acquisition

How You Learn:

Finance for Executives is an intensive and interactive five-day programme that accelerates your understanding and mastery of the core finance concepts, tools and frameworks you need to deliver game-changing impact within your organisation and ecosystem. 

The programme explores each issue through the use of real-world case studies, hands-on valuation exercises and open discussion with LSE faculty. 

You absorb knowledge and translate that knowledge directly into highly practical, actionable insights continuously - exchanging perspectives and experience with peers from a diversity of industries, sectors and geographies. The learning experience delivers transformational impact that is as immediate as it is enduring.